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I assume it's a Dutch pronunciation thing.
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Apr 30, 2020 12:38
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OwlFancier posted:I assume it's a Dutch pronunciation thing. Yeah that. Not like crazy long, but where we say "PEE-zuh", they say "PITZ-ah". So if you wrote pizzas, it would be pronounces "pitzass" instead of "pitzahs". Dutch is weird.
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Apr 30, 2020 12:41
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pitz rear end
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Apr 30, 2020 12:43
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I spent Christmas with a family friend who while otherwise quite lovely is a pretty tedious centrist. "Labour's problem is they just need to listen," she said. "Listen to who?" I asked. Then she told me about some young lad she knew who couldn't find a job because there were no local bus routes near him that could take him anywhere he could find work. "None of the political parties care about problems like his," she said. I told her that in the election Labour had a manifesto commitment to nationalise the bus services and introduce thousands of new bus routes. "Yeah, well, they just need to listen," she replied. Turned out she meant they should listen to Guardian columnists.
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Apr 30, 2020 12:49
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Failed Imagineer posted:"issues of the subcontinent" is some Lloyd George-rear end phrasing I had a subcontinent issue last night after a little too much fried chicken
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Apr 30, 2020 12:51
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He went to India in 1941, and was assigned to Calcutta shortly afterwards. That was not the most glorious time and place in British military history. To be perfectly fair, though, he did then help Burma win functional independence after Japan turned out to be even more poo poo at running the country than the British Empire.
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Apr 30, 2020 12:51
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Bobstar posted:Yeah that. Not like crazy long, but where we say "PEE-zuh", they say "PITZ-ah". So if you wrote pizzas, it would be pronounces "pitzass" instead of "pitzahs". It's the same in German, which just reinforces my belief that Dutch isn't a real language but something they made up to piss off the Germans.
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Apr 30, 2020 12:57
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Guavanaut posted:Lack of land wars in Europe leading to a generation of soft shites who are convinced that they fought land wars in Europe. *laughs in Serbo-Croat*
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Apr 30, 2020 13:06
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Comrade Fakename posted:I spent Christmas with a family friend who while otherwise quite lovely is a pretty tedious centrist. "Labour's problem is they just need to listen," she said. "Listen to who?" I asked. Then she told me about some young lad she knew who couldn't find a job because there were no local bus routes near him that could take him anywhere he could find work. "None of the political parties care about problems like his," she said. I told her that in the election Labour had a manifesto commitment to nationalise the bus services and introduce thousands of new bus routes. "Yeah, well, they just need to listen," she replied. its always about being reactionary and racist and https://twitter.com/LabourList/status/1255806748482404352
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Apr 30, 2020 13:22
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Amazing. What could possibly go wrong.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:25
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Jose posted:its always about being reactionary and racist and whoa he is animorphing into richard spencer too e: really the listening to lost voters thing has to be embracing brexit in some form. i guess since they dont want to do that and kier is curious if they take anything else away from these frank chats with some stakeholders on zoom
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Apr 30, 2020 13:29
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The article does mention:quote:“It’s a mountain to climb. But four years is time enough for us to do what we need to do,” Keir Starmer told The Mirror last night. He is a man with a plan to win power, which is lucky since that’s what he is there to do. The Labour leader has revealed that he is launching a virtual tour of the country, holding a series of ‘call Keir’ events on Zoom to have some “gritty” conversations and win back the trust of the electorate. The first of the ‘town hall’ style events will see the north London MP speak with voters in Red Wall seats in Bury and the Tees Valley – areas where Labour lost last year and will need to reclaim if it’s to win power. Though personally I'm more skeptical of how you talk to lost voters by doing zoom calls because I highly doubt many of the people who don't vote labour up here are going to be very interested in zoom calling a posh london lawyer. Gritty politics conversations up here is people yelling about brexit at you across the street.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:36
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i don't even see why it matters now all the opposition should be doing is banging on about covid considering any election is ages away https://twitter.com/davidrhodesBBC/status/1255797679419994113
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Apr 30, 2020 13:38
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Bobstar posted:Yeah that. Not like crazy long, but where we say "PEE-zuh", they say "PITZ-ah". So if you wrote pizzas, it would be pronounces "pitzass" instead of "pitzahs". It's the same in Hebrew but the pluralisation is done as Pitzot because pizzas are female. 
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Apr 30, 2020 13:39
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Comrade Fakename posted:I spent Christmas with a family friend who while otherwise quite lovely is a pretty tedious centrist. "Labour's problem is they just need to listen," she said. "Listen to who?" I asked. Then she told me about some young lad she knew who couldn't find a job because there were no local bus routes near him that could take him anywhere he could find work. "None of the political parties care about problems like his," she said. I told her that in the election Labour had a manifesto commitment to nationalise the bus services and introduce thousands of new bus routes. "Yeah, well, they just need to listen," she replied. Had exactly this over Christmas with an in-law who was more "personally perfectly nice but likes BORIS because he was hilarious on HIGNFY, did that whiff-whaff speech in Beijing and has an optimistic vision*". Had to listen to how Labour lost its 'core votes' and 'didn't listen to the ordinary working class' and 'wasn't offering anything to solve the problems of everyday people, just a load of champagne-socialist identity politics and complicated economics that wouldn't work.' So I went full tedious  and rattled off Labour's proposals for secure and well-paid regional jobs, to increase housing availability and reduce costs, to lower the prices of public transport, to improve working conditions and workers' rights, to reform and re-fund education, to improve the NHS etc. etc. etc. and finished off something to the effect that even if you personally didn't think these policies would work, they were at least addressing what we're now suddenly hearing were the issues that everyone really wanted to hear about. The response was "Labour didn't listen to people when they were in power last time. People were worried about immigration and they were just called racists and bigots." So: Jose posted:its always about being reactionary and racist and every time. * This meme about Boris' unique appeal based on his optimism is similar bullshit that winds me up, because like 'pragmatism' and 'realistic' (or even 'forensic' questioning...) it basically means 'has a vision that I agree with.' I think Labour's 2019 manifesto was bloody optimistic - it was laying out a vision of a better society and a better nation and saying how we'd get there. It was acknowledging that there were a lot of problems but this is how they're going to be tackled or solved. That things don't have to be like this. That's optimism. But apparently saying how the country could be better isn't optimism, it's 'doing Britain down'. Optimism actually means waving Union Jacks, throwing the phrase 'Great Britain' into every speech and insisting that everything is wonderful and lovely right now and nothing needs to change. What I think most people would call delusion or denial. So: Jose posted:its always about being reactionary and racist and  Yes, being stuck in the house without a job watching the government gently caress everything up is finally getting to me after six weeks. How could you tell?
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Jose posted:i don't even see why it matters now all the opposition should be doing is banging on about covid considering any election is ages away Miftan posted:pizzas are female
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Apr 30, 2020 13:47
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It is clap-clap day, girls and boys. Are we excited for clap-clap time? 
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Apr 30, 2020 13:51
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Clap-clap this fat rear end.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:52
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Jose posted:he's 100 so chances are he is racist  a bit prejudiced don’t you think?
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Apr 30, 2020 13:53
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Miftan posted:It's the same in Hebrew but the pluralisation is done as Pitzot because pizzas are female. Interesting! I wish I knew more about Hebrew, especially because Yiddish is basically like Luxembourgish and Hebrew had a baby, so I can understand some of it.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:53
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I was not initially against the clap because I thought it would be a one-off event but now that it's turned into a ritual I loving hate it.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:54
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Guavanaut posted:East Midlands near the bottom for something good this time.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:55
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Guavanaut posted:Pizza's good. Thanks for reminding me of the one mate who, in the nineties when delivery pizza was still a novelty, would insist on singing this over and over again to the tune of Ebeneezer Goode until the pizza arrived. Incidentally did you know justifiable homicide is actually a valid defence in English courts?
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Apr 30, 2020 13:58
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OwlFancier posted:Though personally I'm more skeptical of how you talk to lost voters by doing zoom calls because I highly doubt many of the people who don't vote labour up here are going to be very interested in zoom calling a posh london lawyer. That's ok, they already know the take home message of these zoom calls they want (drop the left wing platform you campaigned on) so they don't need anyone to actually be on the line.
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The Deleter posted:There's no reason to go outside in the East Midlands even at the best of times. goddamnedtwisto posted:Ebeneezer Goode did u kno it's about the drugs, very edgy Going to blast it out of my head with Rhythm Of The Night.
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Apr 30, 2020 14:07
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Guavanaut posted:We have some nice fields. One of them has a horse. It's the only horse we could afford.
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Apr 30, 2020 14:10
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brainspiders to the point of making cargo cult effigies to appease the NHS rather than voting against austerity
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If we clap hard enough then ppe will rain from the sky.
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Communist Thoughts posted:whoa he is animorphing into richard spencer too Labour going full red/brown.
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Apr 30, 2020 14:37
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keep punching joe posted:Labour going full red/brown. oh right lol, is kier a brownite? those guys are always waiting for a comeback
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The Deleter posted:I was not initially against the clap because I thought it would be a one-off event but now that it's turned into a ritual I loving hate it. I thought it was cringe from the start, and it has since been coopted as a purity test by exactly the sort of people who voted to gently caress the NHS in the first place, e.g. our very nasty tory CFO who sanctimoniously told someone they couldn't arrange a social event at 8 on a thursday because that's when the clap is in a "and now we all know you don't do it SMDH" sort of way in a Zoom call this morning it's a thumbs down from me https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/30/covid-19-crisis-demand-fossil-fuels-iea-renewable-electricity quote:Renewable electricity will be the only source resilient to the biggest global energy shock in 70 years triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the world’s energy watchdog. this is good??
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Apr 30, 2020 14:42
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Comrade Covid at it again.
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Apr 30, 2020 14:44
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Communist Thoughts posted:oh right lol, is kier a brownite? Brown didn't listen to middle England bigots, expect Der Starmer Labour to definitely want to harness some of that energy though.
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Apr 30, 2020 14:46
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Communist Thoughts posted:oh right lol, is kier a brownite? i think that's a nazbol joke not a gordon brown joke
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Apr 30, 2020 14:48
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I'm going to time my daily walk so I come back at 8pm, it's like a parade. Even better when you're stoned.Jose posted:its always about being reactionary and racist and Can't believe it's not even May and we're already doing 'gritty' zoom calls. By June we'll have grimdark Microsoft Team meetings until plumetting down into virtual snuff meetings where everyones face is covered by a CGI dog mask that licks the screen everytime they open their mouths.
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Apr 30, 2020 14:49
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Tempted to try to get on the zoom call with a hotline miami filter.
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Apr 30, 2020 14:51
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OwlFancier posted:Comrade Covid at it again. Welcome to Covid's Britain Can we please get the "yes haha yes" window but with a coronavirus looking in? I feel this image is way overdue
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justcola posted:I'm going to time my daily walk so I come back at 8pm, it's like a parade. Even better when you're stoned. Hard. Choices. Like whether to be grumpy or polite to immigrants as we deport them. Unrelated (I hope), what about electric or hydrogen ships to travel to the US? More realistic than non-fossil planes in the short term? Obviously I'm imagining a world where we have lots of leisure time because luxury communism. Bobstar fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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